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Benchmarking is a tricky business. brian d foy illustrates the point very well, building on observations of David Golden where the performance of the very same code can be seen to vary wildly in function of its execution order.

Sometimes, straight LWP::Simple web scraping won't do. In those cases, Selenium with a browser was usually the way to go. But now Rob Hammond brings our attention to a new contender, PhantomJS, which bypass the need of a browser altogether.

Somewhere, the ghost of John Lennon is facepalming and muttering "shouldn't have said that, mate". But Vyacheslav Matyukhin has every reason to preen. Play-Perl first week has been a fantastic one, and the service sure caught the eye of many. Flash in the pan, or the birth of the next big thing? History will tell. But in the meantime, no-one can argue against the fact that, yeah, we could all use a little bit of play.